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trishtrash | 13:32 Thu 05th Oct 2006 | Animals & Nature
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why do snails climb up trees
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For the view?
...To get to the other side. No that's chickens isn't it.

To eat leaves? Commit suicide?
To avoid snail pellets?
To deliver worms to the birds (like pizza)
Because they can.
do they?
I must say that I have never seen one up a tree. I've seen one lurking in the ivy on a tree trunk but never just up a tree.

I saw this humungous caterpillar climbing up a tree once - I promptly forgot about it then screamed my head off when it dropped off into my hair half an hour later.
They most definitely do. And up house walls and fences. Anything vertical really.

Unfortunately, I've no idea why, either.
I have four Giant African Land Snails in a large plastic tank (well storage container, the tank got too small!). They like to climb up the sides and I spray it with tepid water, so they can slide up and down and have a drink. One got out and climbed up the wallpaper. I tried to lift it off but you have to wait until they are ready to let go, they have got quite a bit of suction - when it came away from the wall it had eaten the wallpaper and I now have a snail's foot shaped bald patch right in the middle of my front room wall!
lankeela - when you say 'Giant' snails are they bigger than your mutts?

yucky yucky yucky

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